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I love how the Internet connects me with fellow tea lovers whose paths I may never have crossed in my everyday life. Today, I'd like you to meet Liz Steel, an architect from Sydney who is an awesome sketcher and of course, loves tea!
Here's just a sampling of some of her lovely tea sketches – she says she likes to drink tea and sketch at the same time – I think that is a great combination! There's just something about her sketches that make me very happy when I see them, and don't you think her love for tea just radiates in these drawings? It makes for such a lovely record too….*suddenly wishes Harry Potter could wave a wand and give me a dose of artsiness*
Liz also shared with me some of her favourite teas and tea haunts:
What are your favourite teas at the moment?
Well, I have to say Earl Grey. This is my long time favourite tea. I have tried well over 50 varieties of it, but the brand I buy by the kilo bag is Taylors of Harrogate's Earl Grey.
I drink all kinds of tea – white, green, oolong, pu-erh, herbals…you name it, I will try it. But my other big favourite tea is a green oolong – I am particularly partial to those from Taiwan. I have a Da Yu Mountain tea at the moment which I love. So I have a very varied tea drinking taste and mix both western and eastern tea cultures. In fact I don't think that there is a tea culture that I would not enjoy.
What are you favourite tea spots in Sydney?
For me, the most important ingredient of a tea spot is not only good tea but its variety! As it is all about the whole experience, I like variety in the selection of tea, the teaware, the food to eat alongside the tea and the views/ variety of sitting positions. All these things are highly sketchable and keep me inspired on repeat visits.
Well, the best teahouse I have ever been to (and I have created my own rating system to compare them) is actually my local one- how special is that? It is the T2 teahouse at Macquarie Centre in North Ryde Sydney. They have an enormous selection of tea – over 150 – and I am working my way through them all…down to the last 50 now! Each time I visit I have a different teacup, saucer, and pot. The staff are amazing, as are the raspberry scones and the interior is so interesting and sketchable! The full selection of my sketches in this tearoom is here.
Another favourite tearoom, is The Tea Cosy by The Rocks (near Harbour Bridge). They have a smaller range of tea but a neverending supply of hand-knitted tea cosies and amazing scones as well…as you can see, it is not just about the tea for me!
There are many teahouses in Sydney that I haven't explored – I don't seem to have the time at home to get out and about exploring them as much as when I am travelling…but in terms of quality tea, Dragon Well Chinese Teahouse in Pyrmont is great. Only a small selection of tea, but Lisa, the owner goes to China each season to choose the best tea (that is where I got my Da Yu, which I am now drinking)!
Right now, I am in Port Macquarie having a holiday by the beach. However, just nearby is another tearoom called Tea and Treasures and it has the most amazing selection of china. It is a teacup museum! I get so excited on every visit as the staff and owners choose something special to serve my tea in and then bring me other cups to draw! The cakes are great as well.
Thanks so much for these recommendations, Liz! Will be sure to check them out when it's my turn to visit your hometown 🙂
Images courtesy of Liz Steel


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Prior to a visit to your physician (primary care doctor, dentist, or a specialist), have you seen, read or heard a medical claim that you wanted to ask about? Or have you experienced symptoms that you are unsure may or may not be related to the reason for the visit? What about prescription medications or herbal supplements you are taking? Trying to track any or all of these kinds of items in a single place can be a challenge, and if you are like many of us, the needed note is nowhere to be found the day of the appointment.
If you own a camera-equipped smartphone or similar device — iPod Touch, iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, Windows Mobile or Blackberry — add Evernote to it and you can have that information at hand whenever you need it.
As described in a detailed eSynapse article last year,
Evernote is a free software application that helps you capture information anywhere, any time and in any form using your preferred electronic device, making that information instantly searchable and accessible.
Evernote groups everything based on tags that you add to each item allowing for easy search and retrieval. You can even group sets of items into notebooks and share them with others online. Each published notebook is given its own unique URL and is available to be indexed by search engines.
You can use Evernote on almost any mobile device, or access it from the web.
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Highlights of last night's game:
- Troy Glaus - The hobbling manboy was back in the lineup and made his presence felt. We have the feeling that his heel will continue to cause him trouble, but we'll take a missed game here and there if we can get clutch performaces like this a couple of times a week.
- The Bullpen - Downs, Jannsen, and Accardo pitched 4 innings combined allowing two hits, no walks, and no runs. Plus Accardo looked like a real closer last night. Bonus!
- Honourable Mention, Tomo Ohka - After giving up two early home runs, Ohka hung in there and shut the Orioles down long enough to give the bullpen a reasonable chance to get a win.
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New Split Pivot rear suspension design and refined geometry improves handling, bump absorption, braking, pedaling efficiency and stiffness.
The Spearfish XX1 on Piedmont Trails above Duluth.
With the rise in popularity of marathon and 24 hour cross-country racing, Salsa has carved itself a tasty niche in the mountain bike world. Targeted for riders who consider 100 miles per day a leisurely jaunt, the Salsa Spearfish has been an ideal choice with those who love to explore the far reaches of wilderness, featuring 29-inch wheels and lightweight full suspension design that minimizes body fatigue.
Mtbr was invited by the Salsa crew for a couple days of riding in Duluth, Minnesota on the fully redesigned 2014 Spearfish featuring David Weagle's revolutionary Split Pivot rear suspension design. The Salsa crew doesn't just talk the talk, they walk the walk, fully living up to their slogan "Adventure by Bike". As this is being written, Salsa design engineer Sean Mailen and Ryan Horkey are preparing for a seven-day excursion on the Colorado Trail with their Spearfishes; a 400+ mile adventure with 90,000 feet of climbing between Denver and Durango.
Gorgeous anodized teal finish topped off with the chili pepper.
To further prove its marathon pedigree, Salsa holds a number of endurance racing records, including the fastest time on the 700+ mile Arizona Trail, ridden by Kurt Refsnider on a Spearfish.
What is Split Pivot?
As popular as the Spearfish has been, Salsa knew they could make it even better with a revised rear suspension design. Instead of spending years developing their own rear suspension design, Salsa engineers decided to keep matters simple and solicit the help of suspension guru, David Weagle. Known to many as DW, Weagle is most noted for his World Cup Downhill podium-winning DW-Link suspension. But Weagle also holds the patent to Split Pivot, an innovative design that vastly improves braking, traction, stiffness and bump absorption.
David Weagle's Split Pivot is the nucleus of the Spearfish redesign.
Split Pivot is the heart of what's new in the 2014 Salsa Spearfish. As a self-admitted rear suspension dimwit who rides a hardtail singlespeed, I really had no idea what the true benefits of Split Pivot were. Thankfully Salsa provided us with three bullet points to easily and clearly sum up why Split Pivot is better.
1) The rear shock is solely tasked with bump absorption, eliminating the need for excess low-speed compression damping found with other designs.
2) Pedaling performance is independent of bump absorption, which means that whether you're coasting over rocky, rooty sections of trail or pedaling through it, the rear shock performs exactly the same.
3) Braking performance is also independent of bump absorption, eliminating annoying brake chatter and vastly improving traction under braking.
It should be noted that one of the big priorities of Weagle in redesigning the Spearfish was making sure the bike used off-the-shelf, factory-tuned shock setups. No special tuning setups were needed to make the Spearfish work, making matters easier for both mechanics and riders.
By adding in a 12x142mm Maxle rear through axle and FEA-optimized AL-6066 tubing, the redesigned Spearfish rear end is also vastly stiffer than its predecessor, improving lateral stiffness by a whopping 21 percent. In addition to stiffening the rear end, Salsa engineers wanted to improve agility and handling by shorting the chainstays to only 437mm, among the shortest chainstays of any full-suspension 29er.
Seatstays are isolated from pedaling forces so braking and suspension can work together.
Despite these significant changes in the rear suspension, Salsa engineers wanted to maintain the essence of what has made the Spearfish so successful. Therefore, the 80mm of rear suspension travel remains unchanged and the front triangle is very similar to the original. Frame layout and geometry also carry over with slight enhancements including the ability to run as wide as 2.35" tires.
In order to deliver relaxed, stable and confident handling, Salsa engineers slackened up the head tube angle to 69.3 degrees across all frame sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL) while pairing it with a 100mm travel by 51mm offset Fox fork. Salsa firmly believes that 51mm offset is the standard for 29" wheels.
Fit and finish of the Spearfish is also improved, with blinging anodized finish options in teal, green and orange that get the press-fit BB92 bottom bracket shells and tapered head tubes faced and reamed after paint and anodizing is complete; an extra step most other manufacturers neglect.
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Scenario One:
I'm sitting with a group of college staff members - thoughtful, open-minded, warm-hearted young people in their first professional positions. They are talking about Richard, a student who is probably on the spectrum. He is finishing a rocky first year at the institution. He's been without a roommate since the first weeks of September. He has struggled in many of his classes. He has made few real connections on campus.
The conversation focuses on preparations for next year and centers on concern about Richard's ability to manage placement with a new roommate.
"Couldn't he have gotten a single room for medical reasons?" someone asks.
"He probably could have, but he didn't request one," someone else answers.
Conversation turns to the reasons why it might be difficult for a new roommate to adjust to life with Richard.
"Richard talks to himself as he walks around campus."
"Actually he switches his voice to a higher pitch and talks back to himself."
"Apparently the high-pitch voice has a name. Suzanne. He talks to her, and she talks back."
On one level, the tone of the conversation is respectful and factual. But I think we are all aware of an undercurrent of incredulity, bemusement, and perhaps pity that is building momentum just beneath the surface.
I'm not sure where the conversation is going and I'm not sure I want to go with it, so I open my mouth.
"When I look at Richard," I say, as heads turn toward me, "I see my son in ten years."
My words are followed by a very thoughtful pause.
Scenario Two:
I'm reading blogs. There are no new posts on any of my regular reads - the blogs written by parents of children with autism or the blogs written by autistic adults - so I start surfing and I find myself in the world of "mainstream" mom-blogs. I read thought-provoking, insightful prose by mothers whose children are not autistic, are not disabled, are not developmentally delayed.
I am startled to find that so many of these moms seem so much like me.
Then I am startled because I am startled.
I read a post written by a mom looking for support and reassurance. She has a child who is "clingy," who wants to be held, who can only fall asleep in her mother's arms. In this lengthy post, I see flashes of Bud as a baby, Bud as a toddler, myself as a mother. This mom is writing, she says, for reassurance that she is not alone; she wants to know that others have experienced something like this. She's writing, she says, because she is starting to panic, starting to believe that she is not handling this clinginess the "right" way, the way that will be most helpful to her child. She wants to know what other mothers do to get through these moments of panic and self-doubt.
I have a lot to say. I click on "Post a Comment" and the words flow. You are not alone, I say. I have been there, I say. And this. And this. And this. And this, I say.
And then I finish the comment, and I freeze and think:
This mom - this panicky mom - may follow my comment back to my blog. And then she'll discover that Bud is autistic. Bud - the baby who was clingy - the toddler who could not fall asleep unless his arms were wrapped tightly around my neck - the child who reminds me so much of her child - is autistic.
The parts of Bud that remind me of her child are not the parts that pointed to his diagnosis. They are traits shared by many children, autistic and neurotypical alike. I know that. But she may not.
She is looking for reassurance and support - but not, certainly, from mothers like me. She wants to know that she's not alone - but it couldn't possibly help her to know that I am in the seat beside her. She is looking for help. I have nothing to offer.
I delete my comment. I leave nothing in its place.
Sometimes the disablism we confront in the world outside is a lot easier to handle than the disablism we confront in the world within.


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Trump Announces Retaliatory Strike On Syria For Chemical Weapon Attacks
By RJ Johnson - @rickerthewriter
April 13, 2018
President Donald Trump addressed the nation Friday night saying he has authorized a retaliatory action against Syrian government targets in response to a suspected chemical attack in a Damascus suburb that left dozens of civilians dead.
The operation was undertaken in concert with the United Kingdom, and French allies. Trump thanked them for their help on this mission.
Trump also used his speech to directly address Syria's two allies - Russia and Iran - asking them why they would support a brutal dictator who used chemical weapons against his own people.
"To Iran and to Russia, I ask: What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?" Trump said. " Hopefully someday we will get along with Russia, and maybe even Iran. But maybe not."
The AP reports that loud explosions were heard in the skies over the Syrian capital, the same time as President Trump was announcing the strikes.
Trump said that the U.S. did not seek "an indefinite presence" in Syria, and will consider pulling out troops once the Islamic State had been defeated.
British Prime Minister Theresa May issued a statement about the strikes, saying they were about deterring the Syrian regime from using chemical weapons.
"This is not about intervening in a civil war. It is not about regime change. It is about a limited and targeted strike that does not further escalate tensions in the region and that does everything possible to prevent civilian casualties," May said.
The UK Defense Ministry issued a statement saying fighter jets have launched missiles at a military facility near Homs, "where the regime is assessed to keep chemical weapon precursors stockpiled in breach of Syria's obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention."
At a press conference on Friday, the White House said the government had a "very high confidence" that the Syrian government perpetrated the deadly chemical weapons attack in a suburb of Damascus on April 7th.
"We have a very high confidence that Syria was responsible and, once again, Russia's failure to stop them and their continued disaction on this front has been part of the problem," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
Trump called Assad an 'animal' amid news of the chemical attack last weekend, warning that there would "a big price to pay" for the " mindless CHEMICAL attack."
Syria and its allies - Russia and Iran - deny that Assad's government used chemical weapons. The Russian Defense Ministry blamed the United Kingdom on Friday for staging the attack, something the U.K. dismissed as a "blatant lie."
This is a developing story, more details will be added as they become available.
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Biker babes? Living Stones launch preschool
The Living Stones church on Market Street in the Woolen Mills neighborhood may be best known for its impressive collection of Harleys parked outside each Sunday. But on weekdays, the vehicle of choice has a few extra wheels and a lot more cargo space. The Church has a new preschool– let the minivans roll!
Like the Living Stones ministry itself, school director Amy Venezian says the preschool's founding resulted from divine intervention.
"I was led in prayer," says Venezian, "that the Woolen Mills area would need a Montessori preschool."
Venezian, who had been a Montessori teacher for 16 years in New York and then in Arlington before moving to Charlottesville two years ago, says she began researching locations and planning for the school. But everything fell into place when she spoke with Living Stones minister Sandy Lewis Kelso at a church revival back in April.
Kelso also had a vision for the hog-happy church.
"I knew that God had put us together to work together," Kelso explains. "She brought some illustrations, and my heart melted," she says of Venezian. "I wanted to be in her school; I wanted her to teach me."
Within months, the two had launched the Living Stones Montessori School, which currently has nine students between the ages of two and five.
"This is God," says Kelso. "We humans couldn't have pulled this together."
Although Charlottesville already boasts five Montessori schools, Venezian says the need particularly in the Woolen Mills location was not being met. Response to the program, she says, has been positive from the start.
Mary Margaret Harrison (wife of Hook music writer Damani Harrison) says a warm reception made her feel comfortable enrolling her two-year-old daughter, Iman.
As a teacher, Harrison describes Venezian as "very gentle, calm, quiet." And Iman loves her new school. "She's really different than she used to be," says Harrison, citing her daughter's increased ability to focus.
And while some might question the melding of religion with the secular teachings of Maria Montessori, the Italian woman who founded the Montessori method more than 100 years ago, Venezian says spirituality is perfectly in keeping with the founder's philosophy.
"It leaves the door open for spirituality," she says. If a Montessori teacher was Jewish, she explains, she could introduce the Old Testament. A Buddhist Montessori teacher might offer Zen teachings. At the Living Stones preschool, "We get to bring in more Christianity because we are overseen by the minister."
Lindsay Schwab, administrator of the Montessori School of Charlottesville, says that while the other Montessori schools in town are secular, in other parts of the world the Montessori method is routinely paired with church teachings.
Fred Caplin, head of the Montessori Community School on Pantops Mountain, agrees that there's a place for spirituality in a Montessori school, and he also feels that there's plenty of local demand for the "child centered" teaching method that allows children to learn at their own pace.
One of the focuses of Montessori teaching is sensorial and practical life skills, in which children learn from performing everyday tasks such as cleaning or cooking.
So will the Living Stones students be learning about motorcycles? Not exactly. Though biker church members did prepare the lower level of the church for the preschool by painting and fundraising, they won't be teaching motorcycle maintenance in the school just yet.
"They're left out of that part," she laughs.
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The History Department is delighted to announce the publication of Professor Chris Hagerman's book, Britain's Imperial Muse: The Classics, Imperialism, and the Indian Empire, 1784—1914.
Please join us in celebration on Wednesday, November 13 at 4:30 pm in the Wendell Will Room. Professor Hagerman will offer a talk about his work to be followed by refreshments.


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The Queen wanted to say thank you to Team GB's Olympic and Paralympic heroes. For Duchess Kate, (as a London 2012 ambassador she attended a vast number of events during the games) it was a chance for her to meet the athletes again and congratulate them on a summer of sporting success.
Kate enjoyed talking with the women's hockey team. The Duchess is a talented hockey player herself and played hockey with the Team GB ladies in March, no doubt she was eager to catch up with the team.
Charles and Camilla were scheduled to attend but had to cancel last minute due to weather disruption. Charles and Camilla are spending the evening at the première of the latest Bond movie Skyfall (is anyone else incredibly excited to see this? I cannot wait :)). Interestingly, Kate was recently voted 'Britain's Dream Bond Girl'. I would have loved to seen the Cambridges attended the premiere.
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The athletes wore their official Team GB formal wear, which included a special pocket inside for their medals. Paralympic gold medallist Lee Pearson was among the first guests to arrive and said to The Mirror:
'I was driving down here and reminding myself that it had been a home Games and that made it a bit more special. Coming here to Buckingham Palace to celebrate a home Games is also special because so many of the Royal Family came out to watch us'.
Team GB canoeist Jon Schofield shared a photo of the Palace after the reception.
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Kate looked elegant in a black ALICE by Temperley dress with sheer billowing sleeves decorated with pink flowers and a flowing, dropped waist skirt that falls just below the knees. There is a bow at the front waist, perhaps not a necessary addition to the garment? The dress is thought to be a bespoke piece and the general consensus appears to be people either love it or dislike it entirely because of the busyness. Kate's straighter hair style tonight is very chic.
A look at the back of the dress.
The silhouette of the dress is very similar to the folksy style Esmeralda Dress (with thanks to Carly) It is quite possible Kate saw the dress, loved it and had it a bespoke version made to suit the Palace reception. The Esmeralda is available in white for €455 and black for $292.50 (55% off).
A closer look at the detailing.
Kate wore her Jimmy Choo Cosmic Pumps. The five inch suede pumps are available for €525.
The Duchess accessorised with her floral diamond bracelet.
You can look at a video from the reception at ITV.
The reception was a resounding success and most importantly the athletes had a wonderful time mingling with the royals. Kate appeared to thoroughly enjoy the event and chatting with the athletes. Recently we've seen the Duchess choosing more bespoke pieces, something I expect will continue in the future.
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King's Chapel School
Portions reprinted from Shaw Family Newsletters courtesy of Bryan Shaw
Several schools in lower Berrien county provided the basic education for local families around the turn of the century. The Pine Grove and Kings Chapel schools were filled with the children of Rachel and Marion Shaw. The Pine Grove schoolhouse is no loner standing, but the Kings Chapel school is still weathering the years. It is located just across the county line, and sits just around the corner from its original location.
The two-room schoolhouse has tongue-and-groove wallboards which were covered with a mixture of charcoal and egg whites to create a dull black surface. This sufficed as a blackboard. Each classroom had a wood burning stove for heat. One room has doors opening to each side, while the other has two doors to the front side. A single door joins the two rooms in the center wall. The structure formerly had a porch on the front wall, which was used as a stage for plays and graduation days.
In 1928, the Georgia Library Commission reported the Kings Chapel School as one of only two libraries in Berrien County, the other being at the Ray City School.
The school also served as a voting precinct. It was in use until the school districts were combined in the mid-1930s.
Today the schoolhouse serves as a storage shed, owned by David Fields. His mother, Eva Pearl Gaskins, taught there a number of years.
1905 Staff
- M.G. Knight, Principal
- Susan Parish, 1st grade license, former principal of River Bend School
- Lillie Brown, Assistant teacher
1905 Honor Students
- Arlie Gaskins
- Stella Mathis
- David Mathis
- Idel Williams
- Minnie Gaskins
- Regem Gaskins
- Ruth Gaskins
- Ivah Williams
- Archie Horn
- Edith Smith
- Alma Smith
- Maggie Mae Smith
- Tom Smith
- Clarence Bradfield
- Cordie Gaskins
- Bertie Parish
- Lillie McDonald
Other 1905 Students
- Neta Bradford
- Susie Mathis
- Carrie Lou Williams
- Pearl Smith
- Ilah Peters
- Perry Swindle
- Johnnie Mathis
- Frank Shaw
- Lonnie Smith
- Eugene Mathis
- Caulie Smith
- Mansfield Smith
1906 Staff
- Mr. James B. Peters, Principal
- Mr. Thomas E. Casey
- Miss Susie Parrish
1906 Student Officers of the Kings Chapel School Literary Society
- J.W. Deans, President
- Leon Parrish, Vice President
- Lillie McDonald, Secretary
- Callie Hightower, Assistant Secretary
Other 1906 students:
- David Mathis, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Maggie May Smith, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Lonnie Swindle, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Arlie Gaskins, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Cora Shaw, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Mary Deane, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- Alma Smith, 4th Grade Honor Roll
- John Deane, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- Tom Smith, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- Martha Hall, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- Caulie Smith, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- Idella Williams, 5th Grade Honor Roll
- C.C. Smith, 7th Grade Honor Roll
- Clarence Bradford, 7th Grade Honor Roll
- C.W. Bradford
- Martha Hall
- Eva Williams
- H.E. Mathis
- Charles Dean
- Ilah Peters
- Iva Williams
- F.H. Gaskins
- Shelly Mathis
- Susie Mathis
- Cora Webb
- Eugene Mathis
- Billie Peters
- Perry Swindle
- Mansfield Smith
1907 Staff
- John Smith (of Nashville), Principal
Other Kings Chapel Students and Staff
- Susie Bullard
- Susie Ray -taught at King's Chapel School circa 1926 after attending college at Valdosta.
- Fannie Bullard
- Sallie Bullard
- Jesse Shelby "Dock" Shaw – attended from about 1875 to about 1885
- Fondren Willie Mitchell Shaw
- Mary Idell Shaw, attended from about 1918 and completed the 8th grade in 1924
- Charles Bruner Shaw, Jr, attended 1929-1930
- Marion Shaw, attended 1929-1930
- Lynette Shaw, attended 1929-1930
- Ina Weaver Brown, taught 1930
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Connecticut apple growers say crops down 16 percent because of April freeze
HARTFORD -- Connecticut apple growers say their crops are down about 16 percent because of an April freeze that damaged early blossoms.
Growers told The Hartford Courant that blossoms opened early this year because of the mild winter and warm spring. But they say the freeze that hit in late April warmed a degree or two when it moved into Connecticut, which spared state orchards from larger losses seen in other states.
The frost wiped out up to 80 percent of Michigan's crop, 70 percent of North Carolina's crop and about 50 percent of western New York's crop.
The U.S. Apple Association projects a nationwide yield of 202 million bushels, down about 10 percent.
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David Slade CorrectionJun 15th, 2009 | By Krystal | Category: Featured Articles, Movie News
FEARnet has posted an updated version of yesterday's interview with David Slade. It seems that the director was misquoted about the "15-year-old girl" statement. The original quote was "It was tough for a middle-aged man to get into," he admits, "since they are written for 15-year-old girls."
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"It was tough for a middle-aged man to get into," he admits, "from the point of view of a 17 year old girl. But once I got past that, I found them to be really good stories." He is especially excited about the great script from Dexter writer/producer Melissa Rosenberg. Right now, they are still in preproduction, with plans to start shooting later in the year."


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Illustration: Kerrie Leishman.Myer boss Bernie Brookes has posted his first quarterly sales increase in almost three years. But, as the old saying goes, one swallow does not a summer make.
Investors interpreted the news that the department store chain had lifted sales 1 per cent in the first quarter of 2013 as a sign that sentiment might be improving. It even prompted Goldman Sach's Richard Coppelson to write in his afternoon report: "Maybe after two years of poor performance in a dire retail environment things look like they might finally be showing signs of stability and a turnaround. So, for the first time ever I'm now getting behind Myer and think that we've seen the worst of this stock."
Whether it is wishful thinking or the beginning of a meaningful trend will largely depend on the all-important Christmas and New Year sales period and how it translates into profits and profit margins. If competitors start discounting it will hurt margins.
What is significant about the latest quarterly sales figures is that while it is the first time in almost three years that top-line sales have increased it is the second quarter in a row that the company has lifted its like-for-like store sales. Next quarter will be the test.
The better-than-expected sales figures put a rocket under the group's share price, lifting it 6.5 per cent higher to a six-month high of $2.13 as investors digested news that the department store chain might finally be reducing its reliance on markdowns and improving customer service. But it is still a far cry from its issue price of $4.10 a share in November 2009.
The key now is how Myer deals with the many structural changes facing the Australian retail sector in terms of high labour costs, high rental costs, a strong dollar, more product choice and competitive prices on offer from overseas online sites, increased broadband penetration, and continuing comfort in relation to online payments.
Traditional retail in Australia is not set up for online because the cost structure has been set up for customers to come into the stores. It explains why online sales represent less than 1 per cent of Myer's total turnover, which is peanuts.
Myer boss Bernie Brookes and his equal at David Jones are both committed to improving their online offerings in terms of more products, faster delivery and more price harmonisation between themselves and their international counterparts, but they are still years behind the US and Britain.
This was supported by a survey conducted by Credit Suisse of a panel 20 of upper-income shoppers who were asked to allocate $500 to $1000 among David Jones, Myer, Nordstrom and Net-a-Porter. Not surprisingly, US department store Nordstrom was the standout.
To make it fair, the survey set up a closed sample of products to restrict respondents to shop from a comparable set of products. It found that 73 per cent of expenditure was allocated to Nordstrom, 16 per cent to David Jones, which relaunched its website earlier this month, 7 per cent to Myer and 4 per cent to online designer site Net-a-Porter, more due to the cost of its designer products than the quality of its website.
Nordstrom's site scored highly on functionality, ease of use, product range and price. The David Jones website was viewed more favourably than Myer's site on functionality, ease of use and product range. For Myer, the comments were: "Myer – poor website, inadequate range, inadequate delivery and returns." The comments relating to David Jones were "better than previous and better than Myer, insufficient range, inadequate delivery and returns."
The Credit Suisse report also found that department store leaders tended to generate 15 per cent of their sales revenue from online. Brookes reconfirmed yesterday that the goal for Myer was to have 10 per cent of its sales generated online within five years.
Despite a reluctance to go blazing ahead online, Brookes has started playing hardball with suppliers to try to close the gap between the price consumers can source products overseas and the price charged in his local stores.
Cosmetics are one of the most important product segments sold in department stores. According to some experts, they generate more than 15 per cent of the country's department store sales and more than 20 per cent of gross profit. They also add value to department stores through the customers they draw, hence their location at the ground-floor entrance.
In some cases the price difference between a lipstick bought in a department store and one bought on a specialised US website was 30 per cent or 40 per cent. When the strong dollar is added into the mix, free shipping, gifts and samples and no GST payable on products worth less than $1000, the overseas offer becomes a no-brainer.
Myer's latest figures coupled with the latest in-depth figures from NAB's Online Retail Sales Index show that some of the price harmonisation is starting to pay off. Domestic online sales growth increased by 23 per cent in the year to July, while international online sales were up 29 per cent.
But let's not get carried away yet. Myer and David Jones still have a long way to go to improve customer service and lift their online game.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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I'm a Muppet of a Man, I'm a Very Manly Muppet
Daniel Fincke - Life's like a movie, make your ending, keep believing, keep pretending...
Humans are inexorably drawn to stories. I even like to think of every sentence as a story. It stars a subject which verbs something. And in my childhood there were two stories that loomed mightily above all the others. Star Wars and The Muppet Movie. As a wildly imaginative ham of a loner who loved being alone and writing stories, watching TV and movies, and longing to express himself as an actor, The Muppet Movie was a dangerous story to be exposed to.
What's so interesting about The Muppet Movie is that it is a deeply paradoxical movie. It is a quest movie about a pro-social introvert who craves fame because he wants to make millions of people happy. He is surrounded by predominantly creatures who have an unrestrained naturalness of self-expression that is constantly overwhelming him. Kermit breaks with all sorts of standard dichotomies between the introvert and the extrovert. He was one of us extroverted introverts. One of those people who oscillates between a desire to throw himself out there and express himself to all the world and wanting to pull back and retreat a bit from whatever love comes flowing back at him from the world. It's not easy being Kermit. He's smart, conscientious, warmhearted, and a natural showman—and yet also fundamentally shy, reserved, and cautious at his core.
He is a hero on a quest for glory, but he's not a fighter. He doesn't slay his enemies, he pleas for them to do the right thing. His desire for fame is for the opportunity to touch others, not to aggrandize himself. He is a quintessential embodiment of the paradoxical American obsession with both egalitarianism and fame. Of course, now thanks to the explosion of social media, we live in an era in which everybody is famous—and so nobody is.
You're not supposed to admit to wanting to be famous. You risk revealing yourself to be a narcissist if you do. But Kermit is unapologetic about wanting to be famous. And the vicarious triumph young kids experience through Kermit is of becoming famous with him. You see why I said at the start that it's a dangerous movie! Kermit is the most unabashed seller of the least realistic of all the American dreams—the ones that you can be famous famous (not just Facebook famous). That's a big expectation to put into little heads. All this unrestrained believing in myself that has me expressing myself with abandon to whoever will watch me or read me, whether in a classroom or on the internet, Kermit made me do it. Okay, maybe he didn't make me do it. My mom's a ham too, I got a lot of it from her. But Kermit was more than happy to throw gasoline on the fire.
But even though it's a dangerous story that Kermit sold, one which can set people up for disappointment when they try to live it out, I think Kermit's heart was in the right place. Because balancing that aching yearning for fame was an overwhelming inclusiveness and other-directedness. It's the most pro-social form of narcissism possible that the Muppets represented. Every misfit Kermit could pick up along the way had a place in the show. He modeled the essence of democracy, wherein every weirdo can let his or her own freak flag fly without being constrained by a hegemonic order, without the down side of mob conformist rule whereby the average penalize all deviants whether great or small. Nietzsche's Zarathustra put the stifling mindset of conformist culture perfectly when he summed it up: "Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse."
And the new Muppet movie, The Muppets, captures, pays tribute to, and recreates that essence of Kermit's message that even the misfits can be famous. That we all have something to give. The movie is written and directed by people who obviously grew up on the Muppets and who for the first time since Jim Henson's death we have a Muppet movie which has revived his gloriously meta and exquisitely ironic sense of humor.
A recent generation learned irony from The Simpsons, I'm convinced I learned it from the Muppets. It cracks me up that FOX News got up in arms about the Muppets making a capitalist, and specifically an oil man, into the movie's villain and sending anti-capitalist messages to kids, and interpreted this as the latest in a long trend. What it really was was part and parcel of a film that dispensed with pretensions and underhandedness and deconstructed its own story as it was telling it. It was an exercise in teaching kids about glaringly lazy tropes by poking fun at them—just the way the original Muppet adventures were. Jim Henson was not only about teaching kids how to read on Sesame Street, he was about teaching them how to read between the lines on The Muppet Show, where the kids were constantly brought backstage in more ways than one to see what was really going on. The FOX folks saw the movie and it spelled out the formula of movie making clearly enough that even they could understand it. But, they weren't quick enough to get the irony and meta-commentary meant to be grasped by children.
But I digress, the film is so successful because it tells the story of a Muppet named Walter who grows up feeling like an outcast to the world outside his brother. Nobody looks like him. Everybody laughs at him. He sees The Muppet Show and it tells him there are others like him. He grows up idolizing Kermit and the whole Muppet crew. This is the first Muppet movie made by and for all of us loner misfits who the original Jim Henson Muppet movies spoke to so immediately.
In the original Muppet movie, our quest was with Kermit to fame and fortune. Now our quest, through Walter, is to approach Kermit as an ideal and a famous hero. Our question is can we finally join Kermit, now that we're all grown up. He made it decades ago. He's an international superstar. He's gentler and more magnanimous than ever. He is the model of benevolent power—even in his temporary has-been status. And he never wavers in assuming everyone's got a talent, everyone's got something to chip in, everyone's got a place. In the end of the movie our new hero, Walter, takes pride of place in the center. Jim Henson is gone, it's now Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Nicholas Stoller, James Bobin who are following Kermit's inspiration and recreating his magic. And all the misfits of the world are sent the message that we can too.
This movie was the most joyous I have seen in a long time. I laughed, cried, and reconnected with a character who has been a part of me my whole life, and who I have identified with more than any other at many times in my life. I'm so grateful that someone who felt the same way—enough to raise the question of whether he is even a man or is actually a Muppet—got to make this movie.
Camels With Hammers. This post was reprinted in its entirety from Camels With Hammers.
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This could be the best article I've read about the movie. Your observations about Kermit really hit home with me, and to why I love his character so much. I also loved the new movie. I found it moving and inspiring and wish I had your articulation to share all of the joy I felt of it.ReplyDelete
Instead, I will just share your article with others and put a bit "THIS" notation about it so they know just how strongly I feel about it.
I like Gonzo in The Muppets Take Space movie.ReplyDelete
- Hubert from MCFriday, September 7, 2012 at 9:05:00 PM CDT
I don't know if you're reading these comments, but if you are, very nice article. In the same way that many other fans can, I also relate to this article. I loved the line about how the Muppet Movie is dangerous...it is. :)ReplyDelete
But all in all, this is just an all around awesome article.


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On Friday, Rhizome published a restoration of three CD-ROM games from the 1990s by Theresa Duncan, which you can play here. Duncan's work has been largely and unjustly forgotten since the 1990s, and this restoration project was inspired, in no small part, by a 2012 article on Duncan's work by Jenn Frank.
Here, Nora N. Khan interviews her about her life in gaming. —Ed.
Acclaimed writer and games critic Jenn Frank is widely known for her excruciatingly intimate memoir essays, in which she often probes her family history and girlhood nostalgia to illuminate why games have been vital for her personally and, by extension, for many others. Her work also explores how players engage with, and imagine themselves, in relation to systems, to the sets of rules established by a game world.
Frank uniquely renders games as profoundly human, explicit articulations of longing, curiosity, awe, fear, and love. Her work is very important to me, and to many other writers and game developers, and when she stepped away from games journalism for a time last year because of harassment, it was a real blow. Now she is publishing again, cautiously, and in an effort to better understand her importance, I spoke with Frank over email about her personal history, her lifelong relationship to games, and her part in shaping games criticism as a form.
Nora N. Khan: Let's start from the beginning. Could you tell us a bit about where and how you grew up?
Jenn Frank: I primarily grew up in a small town in coastal Texas, which is a place very unlike what most people visualize when they think "Texas." This part of Texas is mostly little run-down beach communities: houses on stilts, palm trees, antique stores, fresh shrimp. It's humid; it looks and feels like Florida. Geographically, it's nearer to Mexico than it is to Dallas. It's also sort of remote, locked by land on all sides except the side that is the Gulf of Mexico.
And—I think this is important also to note—I moved here, no kidding, by myself when I was 7 years old, from Seattle, to live with my great-aunt and great-uncle, these much older relatives who eventually adopted me. Until then, I'd been bouncing around the Pacific Northwest to live with all these different people. By the time I was 7, I'd decided I should have myself sent to Texas, so my grandfather packed me up and put me on a plane. So I was still really young when I got here, but I experienced an extreme sort of culture shock anyway.
Meanwhile, my great-aunt and great-uncle, Midwesterners who'd never had children of their own, were really very conservative, even for Texas—not only because they were evangelical Christians, but also because of their age. So they held some very dated ideas about parenting. These people sent me to school each day in a party dress, patent leather mary-janes, and those little socks with lace eyelet at the ankles—every day until third grade. I looked like the main character from The Bad Seed! So my peers were right to be terrified of me. Elementary school was a very rough time.


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So you can count the minutes as you wrestle with the daily traffic mess.
The county is looking for a contractor to build a 10-mile fiber-optic communications network along Clarendon and Wilson boulevards, Glebe Road, Columbia Pike and Lee Highway — that's 45,366 linear feet of conduit — and then install an advanced travel time system.
The project, per the solicitation documents, will feature "dynamic message signs and real-time vehicle detections in either direction." Specifically, it will include Bluetooth detectors along Route 50 to "collectively report anonymous Bluetooth device data." The data will be sent to a central server where it will be processed using filters and algorithms that calculate the time it takes for a vehicle to travel from one point to the next.
Of course, if the system shows a massive delay, it's not like there are many good work-around options. Interstate 66? Interstate 395? Route 7? Neighborhood streets? Best of luck.
This is phase two of a three-phase, $20 million project (partially funded with federal dollars) to upgrade Arlington's antiquated traffic-control network. That network, running on copper cables, was installed in the 1980s and is nearing the end of its useful life, county officials say. It is slow, unreliable and lacks capacity.
Last January, the Arlington Board agreed to pay Chesapeake Electrical Systems Inc. $4 million to lay six miles of fiber optic cable, interconnecting 54 traffic signals. That was the first phase.
The solicitation for the second phase calls for work to be complete in less than a year. Bids are scheduled to be opened on Jan. 11.Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.


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Netflix added a bunch of streaming video subscribers in the last quarter. How did rival Amazon do?
Who knows? Amazon is fiercely dedicated to the notion that it won't say squat about its business, and things stayed true to form during yesterday's earnings call.
But the question did come up a few times during the call. Which makes sense, because Jeff Bezos is pumping a bunch of money into video — by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings's account, perhaps a billion dollars a year.
So Amazon CFO Thomas Szkutak did make a point of telling Wall Street that things are moving up and to the right — both in terms of usage and investment dollars. A collection of his video-related quotes, via Seeking Alpha:
- "The percentage of Prime customers who were watching free content through Prime Instant Videos has gone up dramatically year-over-year."
- "We have also increased Prime membership dramatically, year-over-year. They are also purchasing a paid content. Those customers that are using this, they watch free but they are also paying for new content which is great."
- "I can't give you specific for attach rates but the business is making good progress on the video content side. Again it's still very early."
- "We will continue to expand our selection, both in terms of Amazon Instant Video as well Prime Instant Video and we will do that in a number of different ways. We think we have a very interesting selection right now and you should expect that will be spending more on content as it relates to Prime over time. We will continue to add selection on the Instant Video. Beyond that, you have to stay tuned."
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Airbus has confirmed it's cutting the number of A380s due to be delivered in 2008 and 2009 - from 13 to 12 and 25 to 21, respectively.
The company explains: "Airbus has completed the A380 programme review and is now informing customers about changes to its delivery schedule. The review assessed the programme status at the critical juncture of transitioning from low rate 'individual' production, so-called Wave 1, to the full serial design and manufacturing process, called Wave 2.
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By default, the list displays four columns as above, but you can (of course) change the address book configuration to include phone numbers, for example. You can click and drag the column dividers to reposition them.
Double click on an entry to see or edit the information in the Edit address window. In addition to the fields mentioned, you can enter the postal address, PGP key, homepage URL, date of birth and a picture.
An entry must contain at least the real name and some e-mail address. The point of the Alias is to save typing; you can put a short nickname, or initials, into the To: field of an e-mail message and let YAM fill in the details. For this to work, the alias obviously has to be unique for each entry.
In addition to personal entries, the address book can also contain Lists of individual recipients which can be invoked with a single alias. Lists are best used for circular e-mails, and are marked with the list symbol ().
Both individual entries and lists can be put into Groups, which are like subdirectories, used to keep the address book clearly arranged. Group names are displayed in bold. You can open a group to display the names in it by clicking on the little arrow in front of their name.
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Saves the address book to your hard disk.
Searches the address book for a specific text string. All variables contained in the database will be searched with full support of AmigaDOS patterns . If the result of the search is positive the alias and the name of the found entry will be displayed. You can then do another search or edit the found entry. For example,
finds all Annas contained in the address book.
All three buttons open the Edit address window to add a new entry to the address book; however, the appearance of the window depends on the type of entry, since the information stored is different.
This also opens the Edit address window, to see or edit the information stored. Again, the layout depends on the type of entry.
Deletes the selected entry from the address book.
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Unfolds all groups (subdirectories) of the address book so all entries will be visible.
Folds all groups (subdirectories) of the address book so only the entries at the top of the hierarchy will be visible.
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Uses the selected entry as recipient of a hidden copy of a new e-mail. If the address book window has been opened from the main window, a new 'Write' window will appear.
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In this window a single address book entry can be edited. According to the kind of entry (person, list or group), you will see a different set of editing fields. Click [Okay] to accept the changes, or [Cancel] if you change your mind.
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Snail mail
Street and house number of the postal address.
Example: 43 High street
City / ZIP
City and (ZIP) postcode (who would have guessed that…).
Example: Shrewsbury SY1 3PE
State / Country
State/Country where this person lives.
Example: Shropshire, England
Phone number(s)
One or more phone numbers (voice, FAX, mobile phone, whatever…).
Description (applies to person, list or group)
Any comment you'd like to have stored to describe the current entry.
Example: My beloved one
Date of birth
The person's date of birth. Enter it in the format DD-MMM-YYYY.
Example: 12-Dec-1967
Here you can select a picture (preferably a portrait) of the person. Since YAM uses the datatypes.library, you may use any kind of picture format as long as you've installed the datatypes needed for displaying it. If you desire so, this picture will show up whenever you display a message written by this person (see 'Sender info' in the Read configuration).
You can find a steadily growing number of portraits of other users of YAM on the YAM homepage. YAM can access this data bank automatically — all you need to do is enter the name and/or the e-mail address, connect to the Internet and click the Download button. YAM starts by getting a list of available photos and searching it for the named person. If found, any information missing from the address book entry (Name, e-mail address and homepage) will be made good and the picture downloaded and saved in the gallery.
Same as described above.
Return address
If you'd like to maintain a small mailing list using a YAM distribution list, you will have to correct the "Reply-To:" addresses of the original messages, otherwise the answer to an e-mail would be returned to the message's author and not to the mailing list as you would probably want. Enter here the return address you'd like to use, or click the pop-up button to open the address book window and then drag an entry from there into this field.
Example: discussion@…
Mailing list name
When maintaining a mailing list by using a YAM distribution list, enter the mailing list's name here. This name will appear in the To: header field to help the recipient to sort the mail correctly by using filters.
Example: discussion-ML
A list of all current members of the distribution list. You may enter aliases, names or complete e-mail addresses. Click on [New] to add a new list member, [Delete] to delete the highlighted entry or [Sort] to have all entries sorted alphabetically.
Only the Alias and Description fields apply in this case.


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Penn Law Alumni Commons
We are proud to announce our new alumni directory!
The Penn Law Alumni Directory is a secure directory for the Penn Law Community with use restricted to those with a Law School connection.
We encourage you to use this valuable resource to connect with classmates and other Law School alumni based on geographic region, class year, practice area, employer, interests, and more.
Step 1: Log in Using Your PennKey
In order to best protect your personal and professional contact information from those outside of Penn, we require all users to log in using their PennKey username and password.
For those who do not remember their PennKey, or who need to be issued a PennKey, instructions on obtaining or recovering your PennKey and password are below.
To begin the log-in process, go to https://alumnicommons.law.upenn.edu.
Step 2: Review and Update/Edit Your Profile
Once you've logged in, we ask that you review your profile to ensure that all information is correct, and please make changes or update as necessary. Changes to your profile may be made as follows:
- Click on "Edit Profile" at the top of the page
- Click on the pencil icon next to any information field (i.e., "Employment Info")
- Click on "Save" in the appropriate information field in which you've been working (or simply click "Save All" at the bottom of the page) once your changes are complete. Please note that some fields, such as home address and alternate email address, are not displayed in the default settings, and you must check "Unhide" to display such fields if you wish to do so.
Step 3: Explore Linked Penn Law Resources & Websites
The home page, or "Dashboard," for the Alumni Directory provides links to the following alumni resources that extend beyond alumni profiles:
Step 4: Provide Feedback
Once you have successfully logged into the Alumni Commons and reviewed/edited your profile as needed, we hope that you will provide us with feedback that will be helpful to us as we release the Alumni Commons to additional members of the Law Community.
Please let us know what works well, as well as any issues you may have encountered, via this brief online survey.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What is my PennKey?
- Your PennKey is the username and password used for Penn online services. Your username may be the same one that you used while at Penn Law (e.g., if your Penn Law email address was "email@example.com," then your PennKey would be "xysmith").
What if I can't remember my username or password OR what if I never had a PennKey?
- Can't remember your PennKey username? Contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Never had a PennKey, or can't remember the password?
If you graduated in 1975 or later:
Activate your PennKey online using the PennKey-ASAP application. You will be required to successfully complete a brief questionnaire concerning your former academic career at Penn.
If you graduated prior to May 1975:
Request a PennKey Setup Code using the Online Setup Code Service. When you successfully complete the PennKey Setup Code Service process, you will be issued a PennKey Setup Code via U.S. Mail to your address of record. You will then be able to use that code to activate your PennKey login.
- If you graduated in 1975 or later:
Who can I contact with questions?
For technical issues, please email Penn Law's Information Technology Services (ITS) at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For additional PennKey-related assistance, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
For all other questions, please contact the Alumni Commons team at email@example.com.
Where can I find the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy for the Alumni Directory?
- Please read the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. No log-in is necessary to view these two pages.